GB,

Your Mom's versacorder comes standard with a C-120 cassette tape, which only
records one hour per side at NORMAL SPEED.

To get the entire 4-hour "Coast-to-Coast AM" show on one side of that
cassette, you'll need to record at 1/4 speed -- which the Versacorder does
very well.

Tell your Mom that there's a little slide switch on the bottom right (just
under the "Pause" tape key) marked "SPEED." Tell her to move it to the
left-side setting, marked "Quarter."

That will give you a full four hours recording on that C-120 cassette that
came with the recorder. She can even flip it over after it's finished, and
record another entire show on the other side, so she'd have eight hours of
C2CAM.

The Versacorder doesn't have the ability to be set to "skip" all
commercials -- in the C2CAM talk format, many of the breaks are "soft"
breaks, which could be anywhere at almost any time. You have no choice but
to record them, because the Versacorder has no idea whether or not it's a
commercial.

However, the longest breaks tend to be "hard" breaks -- for instance, the
news and several commercials and promos at the top of the hour. You CAN
program around them, because you have more than enough "program" memories.
Just set it to start recording at about 5 after the hour (and stop on the
hour) in four consecutive hours (and use the record every day "Day" setting)
and you've trashed 20 minutes of news and commercials every time you record.

One more tip that can get you through an awful lot of "soft-break"
commercials quickly: While you're listening at "quarter" speed, and a
commercial break comes up, switch the "Speed" switch to "Normal" and then
press the "Fast Forward" key while the recording is still playing. It will
begin zipping through commercials 4 times as fast that way, and you can hear
audio cues on when to let go of the "Fast Forward" key.

Happy listening!

-- Stinger

"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message
...
I emailed Art and George and Lex and figured I'd post here and see if
anyone
has the product and knows how to remedy the situation for me. The
following
is/was my email to those guys.

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I purchased the versa-corder for my Mom so she could tape and listen to
your
shows. We seem to be having a problem, she's running out of tape. So I
read
the instruction manual for her and noticed that the commercial need to be
taken
out.

I called CCrane to no avail, the lady said 'some people' know the
commercial
time slots and we've gotten calls that 'they go over' quite a lot. My Mom
would be asleep so there's nothing she could do and she'd end up missing
parts
of the show.

On the versa corder site, it says the following
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The VersaCorder records up to four hours on one side of a regular 120 min.
cassette tape or a 110 min. tape if you use the 6-event timer to eliminate
commercial breaks.
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Can you help me out here and tell me how to do this or direct me to the
proper
people, I know I'd appreciate it, because I purchased it for her *Just
For*
the Coast to Coast shows. She really feels like she's missing out or been
ripped off...lol

Thank you